[ANN] UnifiedIO 1.2 released

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UnifiedIO allows random access to any data or stream (even over HTTP), and
gives a clear difference between read only and read/write access.

Features:
: : Access everything (files, streams, arrays) in same manner (through
interface).
: : Choose byte order.
: : Change byte order at any time.
: : Define start offset and length.
: : Optimized reading over http (download only needed range of bytes in a
file instead of having to download the entire file - uses byteserving
feature of http 1.1).
: : Extensible through DataSource /DataSourceManager.

new features in 1.2:
: : Read/write direct from/into short/int/long arrays.